on 10/29/2007 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> Just curious. The firewire drive problem. Are you staing that what you >> say, that they don't work well, is *all* Fedora and that they do work well >> with other distributions? Or that they don't work with the kernels, same >> number, of all of them? > > In fedora, whether they work or not changes as fast as the weather in > Chicago. Other distributions don't push changes out to users just to > see what happens. In more sensible times, there was an explicit > 'unstable' branch for kernel development so it was clear what had a > chance of working in a distribution. Now all the wild and crazy changes > are thrown in the same pot and it is left up to each distribution to > guess what is ready for prime time. > >> Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that they are >> for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have switched >> a long, long time ago. > > I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant > surprises. Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed to be based on Fedora Core 6 work so now I wonder just what the difference(s) are? As for Fedora itself. Since you no longer use it why to you care anymore? -- David
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